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mLUMti XXVII. ALLIANCE, BOX HUTTE COUNTY, NEUHASKA, 1 1'KSDAV, SKPTEMMER 1920. No. 8; COUNTRY CLUB FOR ALSJJf. Jolf Course Already ImU Out N of llifiirho linke mid Club House In Prospect During the past three or four days, steps have been taken for organizing a country club In Alliance. The men who have taken the Initiative are II. E. Gantz. Dr. James F. Max Held and Charles Britton, but in the short time they have had the matter under consideration, dozens of oth ers have become actively Interested, and the project has advanced to the stage where it is sure to go through. The plans so far Include the pur chase of forty acres just north of Broncho lake, and the erection of a club house near the lake, which will be available for social festivities of all kinds. The lake Is Ideal for bath ing, and is large enough for motor boating. There 1s no better loca tion in the county. Under the direction of William Dunn, a golf expert from New York City, a nine-hole course has been laid out, and the grounds are being put In shape. It Is expected that I hey will be ready by the end of the week. A dozen men have already placed orders for golf equipment. Mr. Dunn is enthusiastic about, the course. He says that it contains pome fine natural hazards, and that with proper attention it can be made one of the best in the state. The past few days have been de voted to the golf links, but within the next few days it is probable that a meeting of prospective members will be called, and the country club association formally organized. Mr. Dunn is giving instruction at the Elks club- gymnasium In the proper way to play the game, and he has been attended by nn ppger and Interested crowd. He will be at the club thte evening at 7:30 and Wednesday evening as well. Every man who has taken a workout un"e Tiim has Immediately been bitten hard by the golf bug. DR. DOREY SPEAKS ON NEAR EAST RELIEF The union meeting at the M. E. church Sunday evening was well at tended. Dr. S. G. Dorey, represent ing the Near East relief committee presented the cause of the Buffering peoples in that region in a very im pressive manner. He brought out that the Turk was the worst beast in the world and had become so as the direct product of bin religion, Mo hammedanism, which ;.ave him th right of degradation of women and the destruction of all who did not accept the Koran. Because of thes beliefs the Turk had wrought untold misery on the Christian populations. The war gave the Turk further op portunity ito vent his hatred upon these peoples. Dr. Dorey went on to explain that the British government as a govern tnent was helping in relief work. The American congress was-'petl tloned by the national near east re lief committee and by William H. Taft, Henry Morgenthaw, former ambassador to Turkey, Colonel Has kell of the American army and oth ers knowing the conditions, to set aside a left-over war fund to this work of relief but to no avail. Con sequently the near east relief com mittee is again forced to make its appeal direct to the American peo ple. The collections for J he work .amounted to $118.80. Dr. Dorey is continuing the canvass in this coun ty. It takes $60 to keep one child alive a year, $5 a month. WELL KNOWN INDIAN DIED THIS AFTERNOON James Owl Bull, seventy-eight years of age, a well known Indian from the Pine Ridge reservation, died of heart failure shortly after noon today on the ranch of H. Koes ter, near Alliance. Mr. Koester had hired half a dozen of the Indians to work for him. They arrived e1y this morning and spent the forenoon erecting their tents. Right after din ner they started working, and James Owl Bull had been at it but a tew minutes when he fell over in a faint, from which he did not regain con sciousness. His son-in-law, James Hawkins, Jr., was with him and will take charge of the body. The In dian was an old scout and well known in this section of the stale. N. C. McGrath and wife are away on a two weeks' visit with relative! in southeastern Kansas. Mr. Mc Grath is a battery epert at the Alli ance Tire Works. mis. VANCE NAMED to attend congress Governor Samuel H. MeKclvie of Nebraska has notified the state de partment that he has appointed hU -ofllcir.I delegation to the fifteenth rnntloinal Congress Against Al ' m which met In Washington .' V BnJ Thursday. It con fer tie following: . Ma. L. Seibert,. Chapman, Ne Nebr. Agnes D. Kftberts, Omaha, 1922 Co." 5 1st st ret t. Harriet Vance, Alliance. E. E. Lindley, Hastings. Lela O. Dyar, Boone. John Haskell, Wakefield. S. K. Warrick, ScottsblufT. J. H. Currie, Bradshaw. Win, Stebbin8, Gothenburg. Mrs. George Joslyn, Omaha Dr. Jennie F. Callfas, Omaha. Maurice M. Claflin. Lincoln. The congress is a scientific body, Interested in (he study of alcoholism as a drug disease, and is without pre judice lor or against any particular method of dealing with the problem. The president of the international committee of the congress is the prime minister of Holland. .Tonkeer Ch. Uuys de Beerenbrouek. The con gress will be under the auspices of the state department. FIREMAN CROTTER BURNSJO DEATH Former Alliance Resident Victim of ltoiler Explosion at Scotts bin IT Saturday SCOTTSBLUFF,. Neb., Sept. 27. J. L. Crotter, a fireman employed at ' t ihe state. th plant of the Intermoui.tain Light! At the meeting of the directors of and power company here, was burned chamber of commerce, held , ... Monday evening, plans for the meet to death at 9 o'clock Saturday night ,ng wre diBCU8Bed and lhe following in the explosion of one of the arge boilers used in the plant. The aecf- j dent occurred when three of the flues of one of the boilers blew rut, thow- ing stain, live coals and hot water through the fuel door and over the fireman, who was adding coal to the fire. Terr.- In the North Platte valley, i'olvtf ! Pcottsbluff, Minatnre, Mel beta, and Gerlng, are without elec ; light or power aa a result of tho exploi icn. Supt. M, D. Parks rays that the coin mny fias one boiler operating which will be able to provide power in c:se 6f fire in any town. Com pany officials say efforts will be made to furnish power for necebsi ties as Boon as possible, but that no power for lighting purposes will be available irr u wek at least. The firs; fire to strike Crotter, it is believed, ti;d the pressure of the es-j caping am pinned his body against the wall of the coal pin Just back of the doors, holding him a vic tim of the steam and fire blown from the firebox. Fellow workers rushed immediately to the rescue, but before they could frte Crotter, he had been burned and scalded so severely that death followed an hour later at a local hospital to which be was taken. Just what caused the blowing 'of the 'flues cannot yet be determined. Officials of the company say that throughout the day Saturday the boiler was used without any indica tion of trouble and under at least ordinary heavy pressure. Mr. Crotter and his wife came here about a week ago from Alliance, Neb., and he took up work on the night shift of the local power com pany. Funeral arrangements are await ing the arrival of Mrs. Crotter's par ents from Crookston, Neb. E. G. Campbell, superintendent of the city's water, light and power plant, told a Herald reporter this morning that Mr. Crotter had been employed at the city pumping station for a few days during the past month. YOUTH HELD ON A HAD CHECK CHARGE Meredith Bradley, seventeen-year-old son of Mrs. Lena Bradley, was arrested by Sheriff Miller and Depu ty Misklmmeu Monday arternoon and lodged in the county jail. The ar rest followed . a telegram from the sheriff of York county, who asked that the youth be held on a charge oi uttering imuuuieui cuei-as. aci cording to the officers, the young man was in some sort of a scrape at Lexington, Neb., a few months ago, but the affair was settled. The York man has been notified of the arrest, and will arrive in Al liance tomorrow morning for Tils prisoner. Bradley says that the af fair in question took place last winter. EXPEGT BIG CROWD AT R0ADJV1EETING ltes)oiives Coining In Large Numbers frmn (Io.mI Roads Holster Along the Potash Highway. A lare number of responses are reported to the invitations extended for the annual meeting of the Pot ash Highway association, to be held in Alliance on Thursday, October 14, according to Secretary Lloyd C. Thomas. .Invitations have been extended to Governor McKelvie, state engineer George E. Johnson, Dr. George E. Condia secretary of the state con seivation and welfare survey, George F. Wolz president of the Nebraska good roads association, and to other noted men. Members of all coifnty boards in counties touched by the route of the Potash Highway have been invited to attend. A delegation will be present from practically every town ai.'mg the route and other enthusiasts are expected from parts of western Ne braska not touched by the highway. The first link of the Potash high way a distance of sixteen miles from Alliance to Antioch, which Is now under course of construction, will be viewed with interest by the delegates, as it is an example or road building through the sandhill:-- and although somewhat of an ex periment it will undoubtedly prove to be a success. The delegates will be taken over this road while at Al liance as well as over the federal aid road north of the city wlilcn was constructed during this year and which Is one of the finest dirt roads committee appointed: Banquet C. D. Walker, Uevington, Floyd Lucas and Thompson, Tickets W. R. Harper, Isaacson, Geo. D. Darling, o'Keefe, J. E. O'Connor, W. S. M. A W. L. James B. J. Burlington and A. V. Hunt. Publicity L. C. Thomas, Sallows and Geo. L. Burr, Reception and Entertainment C. L. Kerr.L. Lowry, H. P. Coursey, Lee Sturgeon, F. A. Hively, ' JoTin Wallace, K. C. Strong. J. H. Hawes, I M. Baker and J. P. Mann. Program Glen Miller. J. W. Guthrie, F. A. Bald and A. T. Lunu. it THE TRIELERS" AT IMPERIAL TONIGHT Edith Roberts, in "The Triflers," is the attraction for the Imperial theater tonight. Miss Roberts ap pears as Janet Randall, a shop girl I u-lirtaa nhaaa&lnn Is in hffnm a liipm. ber of society's elite in her home city. She temporarily spurns the love of her admirer, a motorcycle cop, and ingratiates herself with a young society lion, posing as his wife In order to free the young chap from an affair with a chorus girl. In the society man's house, Janet has her lesson, and with it, 'disillusionment. She is more than glad to go back to her motorcycle cop. "The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come," with Jack Pickford is the Wednesday bill. Most of you will remember the John Fox Jr., story by the same name. The snobbery of the aristocratic circles in which he lived revolted "Chad". -He thought of the little mountain girl to whom he said good-bye. Did he go back? Well, what would you have done? "The Sins of St. Anthony." the sprightly tale of an innocent boob and his search for pep, starring Bryant Washburn, is scheduled for Thurs day. Anthony Osgood, the central fig ure, is a young man who has for gotten, in his passion for the scientif ic laboratory and the microscope, all the requirements for popularity in the modern Boclal whirl. His clothes are of the vintage of a decade ago. He lacks pep. His fiancee turns him down because he is too Blow. This rouses Anthony at last. He starts on a mad attempt to burn up the prim rose path, aided and abetted by a cer tain pretty dancer from a glrly-girly show, and the results are as unex pected as they are amusing. WANTED Young man, or lady, 20 to 30, for general promoting, ad vertising and contest work; good salary or 60-50 proposition. Ad dress X, care of Herald office. 87p George Workman Monday morn ing disposed of a half-Interest in his second-hand store to B. C. Soth, who avea one mile east of Alliance. AUTO RUNS INTO ! IIERDOX CATTLE FrnnH Kjr.cn Cut About l ine by Fljlnij tJlas One Cow Killed mid Two Others Injured A big Huick six automobile, drlveit by Paul McCoy, eon of Mr. and Mrs. W. II. McCoy of this city, colli led with a herd of cattle on the Antioch road, six miles out of Alliance, Thursday evening. .When the dust had cleured away, one of the cows was found dead, two others were In jured, and one of the occupants of the car, Francla Katen, was badly cut about the face. The car was occupied by Paul and Francis McCoy and Francis Katen, son of Mrs. Celestla Katen. They were returning from Antioch, and the road whs good and they were in somewhat of a hurry, although they were not making any excessive speed. Ahead of them In the dis tance loomed up two men on hotse back and a cloud of dust, kicked up by the cattle, which obscured their view. The men on horseback turned out to give them the road, but they did not see the cattle, and the cat tle did not see them In. time. The cattle were owned by Eugene Thomp son. When the driver saw what he was up against, he reached for the emerg ency brake, but the laprobe got In the way and the automobile had struck the herd before he could make any move to slow down the car. The automobile was badly damage., the two front wheels being shattered. the radiator and windshield smashed. The damages to the car were estimated at $400. Young Katen was taken to the offices; of a physician, where live stitches were required to close one gash In his face, and seven stitches for another. VALLEY FEEDERS DISCUSS PROBLEMS Feeding conditions were discussed minutely Friday evening at a meet ing of the North Platte Valley Live the ScottsblufT Chamber of Cora mere, There is much Interest being taken in the feeding proposition at present due to the large amount of feed available und to the uncertainty of the selling market, while the buy ing market is high at present. Good steers are now costing from 10 to 12 cents. Good feeding lambs cost now between 12 and 13 cents. There must be a considerable ad vance during t'ae selling season to make a profit and at present the prospect looks doubtful. The wool ' market is "shot to pieces" at present, and last year the high price of wool pulled the feeders out of a tight plcae. The price last season was 65 cents. This made the finished lamb sell at from 19 to 20 cents. The cost last year was ap proximately 14 cents. Pelts last year brought from $3 to $4. Feeder steers last year brought from 9 to 1116 cents in the yards. The finished steer in many Instances Bold for from 12 to 12 1-3 cents, causing a great loss to the feeders. Many farmers would be willing to feed this year if they could be rea sonably assured they would break even as they want the fertilizer to keep the crops in ,the valley at a heavy yield. During the evening's discussion, one farmer stated that he would be willing to feed at a loss of $1,000 this year In order to get the fertilizer on his place. SCOUT. EXHIBIT AT ELKS CLUB NEXT WEEK Members of the Alliance troops of Boy scouts will present an exhibit of the work they are doing at the Elks flub a week from Wednesday even ing. The exhibit Is the first move In a campaign to organize a number of troops in Alliance, and the public has been invited to the exhibition. The docal council for the scouts, composed of a dozen Alliance busi ness men, organized last evening at the office of Dr. C. E. Slagle. Dr. Slagle was chosen as president; G. L. Griggs as vice president; Dean J. J. Dixon as secretary and A.. V. Gavin as treasurer. The court of honor committee consists of Profes sor W. R. Pate, Dean J. J. Dixon and Mose Wright. J. B. Miller has been chosen as scout commissioner, and will have direct supervision of all troops that are organized or may be formed in this city. C. M. Brockway. of Hoffland was in Alliance Saturday on business. WANT THE CAHMVAL i IN' Itl SlMM CENTER At the meeting of the chamber of commerce directors Monday evening, a number of business men present I urged that Ihe carnival, which Is to be held In Alliance the week begin ning Oiteh r 4, he (ermiHed to op-' ii; .e I.; Ihe duwiiti vn business sic t on. These nierchrn s argued that If there is any drawing of trade through a carnival, it Is better to have the crowds downtown where they can spend a portion of their money with the home merchants. It is probable that a petition to the city council will be prepared, re questing the necessary permission. Another point In favor of the downtown location Is that the city lighting plant has no transformer that can bo spared, and one Is nec essary it there Is to be sufficient power at the fair grounds to furnish light for the carnival. Willis Beck, rancher living forty miles southeast of Alliance, suffered a stroke of pnraylsls In the lobby r the Alliance hotel Monday morning ;.nd was removed to St. Joseph's hospital. Mr. Beck purchased the M. C. Hubbell ranch five or six years ago. . TO DRILL FOR OIL CLOSE TOALLIANCE Thomas Morriscy of Denver lin Ileen In Alliance Three Week NecurlnK 1 oases on 1V lluttc l4iitd. Thomas Morrlsey of Denver, who first came to Alliance In 1917 and (raveled for four months In Alliance territory acquiring potaHh leases, has been In the city for the past three weeks trying to acquire leases on a large tract of land surrounding Alli ance for the purpose of putting down a deep test, well for oil. Mr. Morrlsey Btates that If suc cessful in acquiring t3e leases he will probably be drilling by July 1, 1921, lue txira- ine snipper tnus has r.ie as it would be foolish to endeavor to't'lltlr demand of the country at his drill in winter weather. Many of ! Kt''' tips Just as a musician aits the wells drilling in Wyoming are at a P'ano wltn fcV'' lring of Cue shut down durina the winter time instrument centered in the keyboard. due to the difficulties of operating in cold weather. Several geologists have been In Alllance recently with Mr. Mqrrisey T ,,on. The grower of fruits or vege to look over the territory surround-j ublel instead of being a supplicant ing Alliance and have given him cn-for "a' share jf the consumers' dol couragement. ' ,ar" must realize that, as a manu- ln Wyoming and Montana some of I fttfturtr. he can set the price on his the best oil wells are brought In with j product and get it. Of course, like the oil deposits in the Dakota antiall successful manufacturers, he Lakota Bandslones, the latter being niusl ta'l right by producing what the most productive, Hnd being locat-i lhe public wants and the grade ed usually about one hundred feetl,llfK uust be standaralzei. Tflis is lower than the former. The govern- the only sure founJalkn. How ment geologist reports Bhow that the, Quickly a manufacturer of uutonio Dakota sandstone will be reached at 'biles or breakfast foods would "go a depth of about 2800 feet in the broke" If he did not et.ck to a tan vlcinlty of Alliance. This would not dard that creates confidence aiiv: "re be too deep for drilling. Ieat orders!" The "glutted mar According to Mr. Morrlssey, he kct" like the codliug moth can i will surrender all leases stcurtd If , overcome ir the grower wdl use the drilling is not started before July 1. necessary science and effoii. Less of His leases provide that the test well the grower's dollar need be. spent must be drilled within six miles of , for marketing and distribution if Alliance. Should oil not be secured j the right methods and organization in paying qu.i .titles in the Dakota re used. Higher prices will be ob sandstone it 13 very probable that gained for the crops at a lower rate arte;:!an water would be found in tutc- 'or the service. formatUn, whli u would be of Ini- eiise v. lue for irrigation purposes. HELD ON CHARGE OFJJOOTING CAR Ben Isham, Burlington fireman, following arraignment before United State Court commissioner L. A. Berry at Alliance Monday afternoon, was released under $500 bonds and the time for his preliminary hear- ; ing set for next Saturuay. Isham and Engineer G. C Ruth were ar rested by Special Agent Todd, Chief of Police Reed, and Cops Taylor and Ray Trabert about 9:30 p. in. Sun day. Special Agnt Todd was watch ing In the Burlington yards. He saw a crew setting out a bad order car from No. 109 on the rip track. The door of the car was open, and Mr. Todd took note of the contents. This string of cars was then pulled out on the east lead, past the pest house. Mr. Todd at this juncture sought the assistance of the city's police. When the cars were switched back, Todd noticed that, some stuff bad been taken out of the open car. He questioned Isham and Ruth, and the two of them were placed under arrest. Ruth was later released. Todd and the other officers then made a search for the missing stuff Five sacks of sugar and six blankets were found concealed near the pest house. Isham, the officers say. was seen to enter the car. EXPLAINS PLAN OF SELLINGPOTATOES Representative of North American Fruit Exchange Tells or Sales Organisation. George E. Walker, sales manager at Alliance, of the North American, fruit exchange, arrived In Alliance Monday from Kearney, and will re main here during the potato shipp ing season. He is now working fi conjunction with C O. Sawyer, man ager of the Nebraska potato growers co-operative exchange, preparing to handle the big spud crop from this district. Another representative will be on the ground as soon as the ship ping gets under way. . The North American exchange, Mr. Walker explains, does not own a single dollar's worth of crops of any kind, although it has some 115 district sales offices, situated in all important buying centers and cover ing all small towns in each district. The North American handles every conceivable kind of a crop for which, there Is a market, acting for local as sociations in securing buyers, The sales manager wires direct to each exchango branch, quoting and de scribing' the cars he bus to offer. The various branches then canvass the carlot buyers In their respective towns, get orders or offers for the cars and wire them back to the asso ciation sales manager at shipping point. Market quotations are sup plied also. The branch makes sales subject to tip? confirmation of the association sales manager and fol lows Instructions as to terms, etc Market information is unbiased because the exchange is equally in terested in all markets, and has no incentive to over-quote or seek sup plies for any one nmrjtet in prefer ence to another. If the local market in any branch will Justify, the sales man will sell at prices higher than the association has quoted offer this is a frequent occurrence in the exchange service and the grower gets Air. walker emptiuslzeb the impor tance of correct grading, as well as lne -uiciency or nis satiB organlza- BARREL OE GASOLINE STOLEN FROM COUNTY Box Butte county Is minus one barrel of gasoline, as well as some ten gallons of lubricating oil, due to the activities of some miscreants who came in a Ford automobile, or truck. Sunday night, loaded containers and all on their car and made a neat get away. The theft took place at the county's grading camp, located for the present near the Lanam place, six miles southwest of Alliance, last Sunday night. John Polling, in charge of the camp, says that no one was on guard Sunday afternoon or evening. The gasoline barrel and the lubricating oil were stowed away in the road wagon. The road shows plainly where an automobile backed up. The tracks are pretty much like all Ford trucks, although Mr, Polling thinks there are a few peculiarities about this particular track which, added to certain suspicious he enter tains, may enable him to trail the thief. During the past few months, from time to time, gasoline and lubricat ing oil have disappeared from the camp, but usually in small quanti ties. .This time the thieves killed the goose that laid the golden eggs by taking the tank, as well as the gas. It the members of the road gang meet up with him, there Is apt to be trouble, and they are confident that they'll do that very thing.